Terry McMillan Quotes

We all know what we don't like about our bodies.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

I have confidence in my personality, because I think that if I talk to people hopefully they will like me, but I don't have confidence in my body.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I still don't find myself a very confident person about my looks or my body.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

I have to see myself naked! That’s all that counts. If I’m not happy with my naked body, who will be?

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I'm not that good looking.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

I don't like my physique at all.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

I don't like my physique. Who does?

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.